Programmed August 2022

Starring Myrna Loy

Featuring a new introduction by critic Imogen Sara Smith Wickedly witty and effortlessly elegant, Myrna Loy embodied 1930s romantic comedy at its most urbane. American audiences in 1937 voted her “Queen of the Movies,” and she has enchanted ever since with her lively intelligence and sly humor, her cool poise and warm heart. Loy and William Powell formed one of the screen’s greatest couples, and in the Thin Man movies they pioneered an ideal of modern marriage as a partnership of equals, nourished by a ceaseless flow of jokes and martinis. A passionate activist for social justice throughout her life, Myrna Loy brought substance and spirit to every film, elevating melodramas, crime thrillers, and comedies with her subtle underplaying, unaffected honesty, and timeless sense of style.

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